RIP Eddie Van Halen

**Spicoli** · 10-08-2020 02:47 AM

This one hits home. I remember some little kid stuffed in the back of an old Nova driven around by his sisters listening to Diver Down. I say "listening" as opposed to those sisters blaring it so they it drowned their little snotty brother out

. I remember my paper route and using bungee cords to fasten a little Radio shack tape deck to my handle bars, riding to Licorice Pizza with the first pay and scooping up my first half dozen cassettes, 1984 right on top. Roth may have been one of the best front men music has known..but Van Halen was all Eddie Van Halen and the brothers. He was a master of his art form and left his soul on the strings. Rock on Eddie and thanks for the memories.

**greynotsoold** · 10-08-2020 03:42 AM

A demo from 1976 of a song that ended up on Van Halen 2.

**SlimTrae** · 10-09-2020 10:14 AM

I don't remember the 1st song I heard from him. But I do remember the 1st time I heard Spanish Fly. Every guitar store at the time, always had some guy showing how great he was by playing either eruption or Spanish fly.
Either way they were paying homage to a Guitar Hero.